Cornell's Department of Mathematics will explore the opportunities and risks of data collection, and will host public school classroom activities during its observance of National Math Awareness Month. (April 6, 2012)
With Flora Rose House opening its doors to a new house dean and intellectual programming, the West Campus Residential Initiative is complete. (Aug. 25, 2009)
The Cornell University Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City on Thursday, Sept. 9. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St., at 2 p.m.
New York, NY (May 17, 2004) -- Two-years ago, Dr. Bruce McCandliss, a psychologist at the Sackler Institute of Developmental Psychobiology of Weill Cornell Medical College, introduced a reading program he co-developed into some of New York Cityâs public elementary schools. The program, known as "Reading Works," uses computer-based reading lessons, and as students have learned from the curriculum, scientists have used brain scans and other methods to monitor how their brains are changing.Now, two-years later, results from the program are coming in from children across many parts of New York City, and the preliminary data are impressive. Children involved in the program, which encompasses 20 forty-minute sessions over a period of several months, are now reading at an ability level, on average, 1.2 grades higher. And, scientists now have a better idea of how children learn to read and what keeps some from becoming proficient at it.
A program to streamline administrative support has saved nearly 90 percent of its $17 million target, Vice President for Human Resources Mary Opperman reported Oct. 26. (Oct. 28, 2010)
Kamola Kobildjanova '11 has been named a junior fellow of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. As such she will work in the Russia and Eurasia Program as a research assistant next year. (April 20, 2011)
While conducting research in early 1998, Lee Kass was inspired to write this poem about the Cornell pumpkin, which mysteriously appeared atop McGraw Tower Oct. 8, 1997. (Oct. 16, 2009)
Cornell University's Presidential Search Committee has issued a document outlining the challenges and opportunities for its next president, as well as qualifications the ideal candidate should demonstrate. The eight-page document, "The Cornell Opportunity," was developed based on input from Cornell faculty, students, staff and alumni over the past several months, as well as input from other friends of the university and community leaders in Ithaca and beyond, according to Edwin H. Morgens, chair of the Presidential Search Committee. (August 21, 2002)